Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT; Swindon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Swindon is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine. The role emphasizes clinical care in a busy environment, with responsibilities including patient examination, safe prescribing, and effective communication. Candidates should be dynamic and self-driven, with opportunities for leadership and quality improvement projects. This role closes on 8th September 2025.

Responsibilities

• Take a history and examine a patient
• Identify and synthesize problems
• Prescribe safely
• Keep an accurate and relevant medical record
• Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and colleagues
• Use evidence, guidelines, and audit to benefit patient care

Job description

Overview

Applicants are invited to apply for a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine post. The post will be Emergency Medicine clinical care, allowing an opportunity for doctors wanting to gain experience and responsibility in not just managing patients but managing a busy department (at Registrar level).

As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, and you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trust’s Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.

The Trust’s overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:

• Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
• Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
• To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
• To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service. The post holder, under the direction of senior colleagues, will undertake the duties below. These are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service.

• Take a history and examine a patient
• Identify and synthesize problems
• Prescribe safely
• Keep an accurate and relevant medical record (electronic notes)
• Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues
• Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient care

STAR Values

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

• Service — We will put our patients first
• Teamwork — We will work together
• Ambition — We will aspire to provide the best service
• Respect — We will act with integrity

Department and Work Environment

We are a busy District General Hospital Emergency Department that sees a wide variety of presentations (in both adult and paediatric). We deal with medical, surgical, orthopaedic, paediatric and trauma patients. These patients can present and be assessed in resus, majors, minors or paediatric ED.

Time Commitment and Development

40% of the time will be spent undertaking departmental innovation/quality improvement projects. The ideal candidate will be a doctor who wishes to take time to do more leadership, education and innovation. You may wish to discover your leadership, management and influencing skills. You may have a passion to enhance your medico–associated skills such as development of new pathways, finding solutions to problems or systems design. You will be dynamic, self-driven and able to manage your time.

Further details can be found on the attached job description.

This advert closes on Monday 8 Sep 2025